FAQ

Answers to your most common questions

What is this service?

Who can benefit from these APIs?

How long does it take to see results?

Can I test the APIs before purchasing a plan?

Where does your data come from?

How often is the data updated?

What is this service?

Who can benefit from these APIs?

How long does it take to see results?

Can I test the APIs before purchasing a plan?

Where does your data come from?

How often is the data updated?

What is this service?

Who can benefit from these APIs?

How long does it take to see results?

Can I test the APIs before purchasing a plan?

Where does your data come from?

How often is the data updated?

API Functionality & Endpoints

What are the main data endpoints you offer?

What data can I retrieve with the Profile API?

Can I track a person’s social media activity?

How does the Post Reactions API work?

What is the difference between the "Post Details" and "Profile Posts" endpoints?

What is the difference between the "Profile Comments" and "Post Comments" endpoints?

Can I use your APIs to find prospects or hire talent?

What is Similarity Search?

What is Personality Analysis, and how does it work?

How does pagination work with your API?

Can I find all employees of a specific company?

How far back in time can I retrieve posts or comments?

Data Attributes & Field Explanations

What is a urn, entityUrn, or objectUrn?

What's the difference between entityUrn and objectUrn?

What is the difference between a ugcPost and an activity ID type?

Can I retrieve a profile using its urn?

Why are some data fields null?

Profile Data

In profile data, what is the difference between the headline and title fields?

Are the profile picture and background image URLs permanent or temporary?

What is the summary field?

What values can the gender field contain?

What do the premium, influencer, and openToWork badges signify?

Contact Information

How reliable is the email address data?

What do the mx record and provider fields mean for an email?

How can AI Agents and SDR tools benefit from your APIs?

How can AI recruitment platforms use your data?

Do you provide phone numbers for contacts?

What types of phone numbers do you provide?

What is a position_group in the work experience section?

For a company listed in a person's work experience, what does the employees range mean?

How is the employment_type field standardized?

Can a single position_group contain multiple roles with different titles?

Is the description for a work experience entry the full, unedited text?

Can I get a direct URL for a school listed in the education section?

What formats can the grade for an educational entry be in?

What information is included for patents?

Why is the patent_number sometimes null?

Can I verify a certification from the URL provided?

What does the display_source for a certification mean?

Can a project listed on a profile have multiple contributors?

Are the skills listed on a profile?

What are the standardized values for the cause field in volunteer experiences?

What are the possible values for language proficiency?

In post data, what is the reactionType object?

What does the reShared object in a post mean?

If a post is reshared, who is the author of the top-level post object?

What is the header field in a post (e.g., "Jane Doe likes this")?

Does the reactor object in the Post Reactions endpoint contain a full profile?

Can a comment have its own reactions and replies?

Does the API support retrieving threaded replies to a comment?

In post details, what is the shareUrl?

Who is the actor in the post details object?

Do you provide data on what type of content a post contains?

What does the sponsored flag in a post indicate?

What does the totalElements field in a paginated response signify?

Company Data

Where does the company fundingData come from?

What kind of technographic data do you provide?

What types of funding rounds are identified in the company financial data?

How is the funding amount calculated?

Do you provide IPO data for public companies?

Can I get a list of all office locations for a large company?

Use Cases & Applications

How can I use your API for sales prospecting?

What's the best way to use this for recruiting?

Can I perform market analysis with this data?

Is it possible to build a public-facing application using your API?

Can I use post and comment text for Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

How can I identify key decision-makers within a company?

How can I track when a person changes their job or gets a new certification?

How can company hashtags be used for analysis?

Can I get historical data for a company's employee count?

What's the best way to enrich a list of existing contacts in my CRM?

Technical & Integration

What format do your APIs support?

How do I authenticate my API requests?

What are your API rate limits?

How should I handle rate limiting in my application?

Do you support batch processing?

What are the common HTTP status codes I should expect?

Do you offer webhooks?

What is the difference between your Fetch Profile and Fetch Profile V2 endpoints?

Do you offer a service status page?

Are there any restrictions on storing the data I retrieve?

Are there any query limits on the Search API?

Do you provide sample code or integration guides?

Pricing & Billing

How does your pricing model work?

What constitutes one credit?

Do my monthly credits roll over?

How can I track my credit usage?

Can I cancel my subscription at any time?

What happens if I run out of credits?

Do you offer customized enterprise plans?

What payment methods do you accept?

Compliance & Legal

Is using this data for sales outreach legal?

Are you GDPR and CCPA compliant?

Can I resell the data I get from your API?

Support & Troubleshooting

What support options do you offer?

How do I contact support?

What should I do if an API call fails?

Can I request a new feature or endpoint?

Competitive Advantage

How are you different from competitors like ProxyCurl or Crustdata?

Why should I choose your API over a tool like Hunter.io?

How do you compare to PeopleDataLabs or Lix-it?

What makes your data quality better?

Is your pricing more competitive?

Can I search for profiles based on their university or field of study?

Do you offer data on company acquisitions or investments?

Can I filter search results by the person's years of experience?

Does the API provide information on a person's interests or the groups they are a member of?

Can I retrieve the images or videos attached to a post?

What is the best way to handle a profile URL that has changed or is no longer valid?

Do you provide analytics on post engagement over time?

Is it possible to identify alumni from a specific school working in a certain industry?

Do you offer sentiment analysis on posts as a built-in feature?

Can I search for companies within a specific revenue range?

How accurate is the company employee count (staff.total)?

Can I search for people who have recently changed jobs?

Do you provide a list of C-level executives for a company?

Is there a way to find out if a person is an author of a publication?

Can I filter companies by the year they were founded?

Can I identify profiles that are "Open to Work" in my searches?

How do I handle duplicate profiles in my database?

Can your API be used to build a real-time social listening tool?

Do I need to be a developer to use the API?

What makes your data enrichment different from scraping?

How does real-time data improve sales and recruiting performance compared to static lists?

How can investment teams use your data to track companies and founders?

What is your Bulk Data offering?

How is the Bulk Data product different from using the real-time API?

How often are the bulk datasets updated?

How is the bulk data delivered?

In what format is the bulk data provided?

What are the common use cases for the bulk datasets?

How is pricing determined for bulk data?

Can I get a sample of the bulk data before purchasing?

For GTM & AI SDR Platforms

How can GTM platforms use your APIs to create real-time, event-based triggers for sales outreach?

What specific data points can an AI SDR platform use from the Personality Analysis API to dynamically adjust email tone?

For automated lead scoring models, which endpoints provide the most valuable firmographic and contact-level data?

How can a GTM engineer use the People Search API (V2) to build a dynamic ICP targeting system?

How can an AI SDR platform leverage the Fetch Profile Activities V2 API to identify buying signals?

What is the recommended workflow for enriching a large list of leads in a GTM platform?

How can the Similarity Search and People Search APIs be used together for Account-Based Marketing (ABM)?

How does your structured JSON response benefit AI agents that need to parse complex career histories?